The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-30
rHs WOODS FULL 0P'EM.
Mississippi Candidates Taking Advantage
of the sessions of the Courts 20 Ven
tilate their Wit. E~loquencet
and Logic ON the ''Dear
peopIe.t

cult Court for the first court district
of Pamela county convened here to.
day. There Is not a great deal OF
business before the court, but to their
regret there is enough to.keep the
most Of our people from the races,
who would like to go. Besides the
home bar, there was in attendance
upon the court to-day from a distance
the Hon. j. 3. Morgan and Col. I.
w. White fran fernando; the Hons.
vi. u. SuaIuis and /. y. o~giashy,
Eugene Johnson and w. j. Fast
from Senatobia; the Hon. Samuel
C. Cook, James Stone, L.. {. Stand
fer aud Perrin Ii. Lowrey from
Batesville. the last named being also
the brilliant young editor Of the Pa
NOLAN, and A. Fl. Whitfield and J..
j. Slack from Grenada.
The woods are full Of candidates
who wish to be '.employed' by the
qualified electors at the next ensuing
election to prosecute for the State,
and a ouartette of these gentlemen
made an exhibition of their wit, elo-
quence, powers Of oratory and argu-
ment before the voters present today.
Judge Roane was considerate, and
abbreviating his usually long charge
to the grand jury, adjourned his
court from II to 2 O'Clock to give the
candidates u chance ut the "deaf
people," and they made most of the
occasion that was possible.
Mr.. Whitfield led Off in his usual
happy style, and entertained his au-
dience about forty-tiye minutes in a
speech repIete with wit, eloquence
and classic lore, and portrayed before
them in forcible language the order
Of ability, talent and moral worth Il
man should possess to represent the
lightly and majesty of the great
state of Mississippia as her prosecuting
officer. At the close of Mr.. Whit
fields speech Mr.. Slack, though
slightly disfigured, vas still in the
ring, and came forward smiling. He
Is the battle Scared veteran of the
uuartette, and gave his war record in
i vein Of IiumGr almost equal to that
Of the most celebrated humorists of
the day. He insisted that to secure
a Prosecuting Attorney equal in tai.
4ntand ability to the standard erected
by Whitfield that Daniel Webster
would have to be resurrected. In
regard to moral worth he claimed to
| be nothing but an honest sinner, and
said he had not played poker since
Confederate money became worth
less, and though when at the point
If starvation during Hoods cam
paign he stole a few hogs in Georgia.
re thought the offense was barred by
| the statute of limitation.
Mr.. Oglesby followed Mr.. Slack,
aud 50 DESTROYS is be Of being again
Employed to prosecute for the State
for the third term, that, like Jacob,
he considers the time that he has
,lready served as short. With eyes
-utfused in tears. he rebutted SIack's
var record with u touching, tender
and pathetic alluslon to the time
when Il mere hey, he carried water to
the fellows who made bullets, mus
kets aud other munitions of war, that
,thers older and more fortunate
night beconc battle SCARED veterans.
Mr.. Oglesby appealed to the voters
20 leave sentiment out and make a
business transaction out of it in Sc
lecting a prosecuting attorney. He
said that after eight years of service
ne was better qualified to serve the
State four years more than others
without the same degree of expert
nee. The burden of his speech was
lpau the idea that because he had
,een in office eight years he had ac-
CURED sufficient experience to eatitle
aim to the position four years more,
The Hon. Samuel G.. Cook, who so
ably and efficiently represented Pa
,ola county in the last Legislature,
'losed the interesting discussion. He
urged that Il great deal of the argu-
ment had been wholly irrelevant.
That a man ought not to be elected
80 Office simply because he had made
I good soldier, or had carried water
10 the bullet moulders and musket
makers. That while he was IN arms
turing the war IL was his mothers
arms and IA only 10 years of age
when the war closed. That while he
recognized the fact that competency
and fitness was requisite in the law
officer of the district, he believed in
maintaining Democratic principles,
prrcedents and supremacy, and in
voked the sound Democratic princi-
pie and precedent Of rotation in Office
AS necessary TO maintain supremacy.
He showed very clearly that Oglesby
argument, IL followed TO It's logical
conclusion, would create a perpetuity
in himself to the office of District
Attorney; would grow gray in the
service and at last die with "harness
on his back" That at the end of
four years more, according to the
claim of Mr.. OgIesby, he would be
better qualified than now and for
that reason would renew his argti.
ment at the close of the 'third term
and at the close of each successive
term, ad intinitum. The speaker
claimed that such doctrine was dam
gerous in the extreme; and contrary
to the genius and spirit 0f Democratic
institutions. That while he recOg:
nized the fact that Mr.. Oglesby was
| on tnptanf thppn Vyns1. ntI,ara nn,sa1l1y